French President Emmanuel Macron has awarded U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley France’s highest medal of honor for his position in coordinating assist for Ukraine and for his greater than 40-year navy profession spent in protection of democracy
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FILE – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers Gen. Mark Milley listens throughout an occasion on the Memorial Amphitheater of Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, on Could 29, 2023. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Gen. Mark Milley, says the principle battle tanks and fighter jets the U.S. has promised to Ukraine received’t be prepared in time for the approaching counteroffensive in opposition to Russia. Tank warfare will probably be key to Ukraine pushing Russia out of its territory, and the U.S. has begun coaching Ukrainian troops on M1A1 Abrams battle tank techniques. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh, File)
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron awarded France’s highest medal of honor to the U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, on Friday for his position in coordinating assist for Ukraine and for his greater than 40-year navy profession spent in protection of democracy.
Milley, who’s touring in France to attend ceremonies at Normandy to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, is near ending a four-year time period as the highest U.S. navy officer and plans to retire when his tenure as chairman ends Sept. 30.
Macron awarded Milley the order of Commander of the Legion of Honor at a closed ceremony on the Élysée, the presidential palace. The medal was created by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. It’s awarded to about 2,000 residents and about 300 foreigners annually for protection of French values.
Milley known as the award “an unbelievable honor from a nation that’s our oldest ally,” which the U.S. has fought alongside from the Battle of Yorktown via each world wars to as just lately as Afghanistan, when French troopers served with Milley throughout his time as a commander in Afghanistan.
In a press release saying the award, Macron’s workplace stated it will “pay tribute to the energy and high quality of the ties of navy cooperation that unite our two nations, and to Common Milley’s eminent position on this relationship.”
Earlier this yr, Macron awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his nation’s stand in opposition to Russia’s invasion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin obtained the award in 2006. Macron has thought-about stripping Putin of the honour however has stated a call to take action “must be taken on the proper second.”